Author: Brad Zellar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873518420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Illuminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.
The 1968 Project
Author: Brad Zellar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873518420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Illuminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873518420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Illuminates the extraordinary events of a pivotal year in America, with photography, eyewitness accounts, and iconic art and artifacts of the times.
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
Author: Alice Faye Duncan
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635924316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book • School Library Journal Best Book of the Year • Booklist Editors' Choice • Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book • Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers • Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books This award-winning book will help kids understand the life and legacy of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ★"(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." —Kirkus Reviews This picture book tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination - when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635924316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book • School Library Journal Best Book of the Year • Booklist Editors' Choice • Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book • Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers • Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books This award-winning book will help kids understand the life and legacy of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ★"(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." —Kirkus Reviews This picture book tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination - when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
The 1968 Project
Author: Gregory Seltzer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983035647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The 1968 Project is the story of how the chaotic and deadly historical events of 1968 influenced the music released in 1968. The Tet Offensive in January, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June, deadly riots at The Democratic National Convention in Chicago in October and, ultimately, the election of Richard M. Nixon in November. These events not only changed the course of American history - these events changed the course of music. The music of 1967 was bright, whimsical, colorful and drenched in psychedelic excess. The music of 1968 was dark, loud, serious and raw. What happened? The 1968 Project threads a narrative through a collage of chaos, arriving at a musical consequence.The 1968 Project is a quick and easy read, as each of the twelve chapters is a month in 1968, chronicling both the historical events and the music released in each month. A must read for fans of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Miles Davis, The Byrds, The Doors and Van Morrison.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983035647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The 1968 Project is the story of how the chaotic and deadly historical events of 1968 influenced the music released in 1968. The Tet Offensive in January, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June, deadly riots at The Democratic National Convention in Chicago in October and, ultimately, the election of Richard M. Nixon in November. These events not only changed the course of American history - these events changed the course of music. The music of 1967 was bright, whimsical, colorful and drenched in psychedelic excess. The music of 1968 was dark, loud, serious and raw. What happened? The 1968 Project threads a narrative through a collage of chaos, arriving at a musical consequence.The 1968 Project is a quick and easy read, as each of the twelve chapters is a month in 1968, chronicling both the historical events and the music released in each month. A must read for fans of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Miles Davis, The Byrds, The Doors and Van Morrison.
Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control - Rivers and Harbors ... 91-2
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights
Author: Sidney Fine
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers.
Project Skywater
Author: United States. Atmospheric Water Resources Program
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Project Skywater
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Project Skywater
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Supplement to The Desert Project Soil Monograph
Author: Leland H. Gile
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomorphology
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomorphology
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema
Author: Malek Khouri
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774163548
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In a major addition to the academic library on the cinema of Youssef Chahine and on Arab and Egyptian cinema in general, Malek Khouri here presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date study on Chahine's work to appear since his death in 2008. The methodological approach of the book, and more precisely the discussion of the theme of Arab national unity from a post-colonial point of view, emphasizes the ideological underpinnings of this Egyptian director's themes as well as his esthetics. The author focuses on the interaction between Chahine's personal and political preoccupations, his eclectic cinematic style, and his devotion to connecting with a wide audience of filmgoers. The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema is an important contribution to original scholarship in the fields of cultural studies, sociology of film, and history of cinema, and will be of great interest to scholars, students, and cinema lovers all over the world.
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774163548
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In a major addition to the academic library on the cinema of Youssef Chahine and on Arab and Egyptian cinema in general, Malek Khouri here presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date study on Chahine's work to appear since his death in 2008. The methodological approach of the book, and more precisely the discussion of the theme of Arab national unity from a post-colonial point of view, emphasizes the ideological underpinnings of this Egyptian director's themes as well as his esthetics. The author focuses on the interaction between Chahine's personal and political preoccupations, his eclectic cinematic style, and his devotion to connecting with a wide audience of filmgoers. The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema is an important contribution to original scholarship in the fields of cultural studies, sociology of film, and history of cinema, and will be of great interest to scholars, students, and cinema lovers all over the world.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1954
Book Description
Reclamation Era
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description